Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO EILISH OF THE FAIR HAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poet's Biography First Line: I'd make my heart a harp to play for you Last Line: Sunlight on other hearts -- ah! How it kills it. Subject(s): December | ||||||||
I'D make my heart a harp to play for you Love songs within the evening dim of day, Were it not dumb with ache and with mildew Of sorrow withered like a flower away. It hears so many calls from homeland places, So many sighs from all it will remember, From the pale roads and woodlands where your face is Like laughing sunlight running thro' December. But this it singeth loud above its pain, To bring the greater ache: whate'er befall The love that oft-times woke the sweeter strain Shall turn to you always. And should you call To pity it some day in those old places Angels will covet the loud joy that fills it. But thinking of the by-ways where your face is Sunlight on other hearts -- Ah! how it kills it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COMING SOON by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE A NOCTURNAL UPON ST. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY by JOHN DONNE THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: DECEMBER by EDMUND SPENSER DECEMBER by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH EVENING CLOUDS by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE |
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